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CourseSmith - AI Teaching Assistant for Educators

Most AI tools generate generic lessons. CourseSmith generates lessons from your actual textbooks.

Upload your syllabus and course materials. CourseSmith learns your curriculum, learns your teaching style, and creates personalised lesson plans, tests, assignments, and weekly schedules — grounded in the books you actually teach from.

Learns your curriculum — from your uploaded textbooks, not the internet
Generates lesson plans in minutes — personalised to your teaching style
Creates tests and assignments from your exact syllabus chapters
Builds your weekly schedule across the whole term automatically
Student analytics — see who's struggling and which topics need re-teaching
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Plans · tests · schedule · analytics · chatbot
CourseSmith AI Teaching Assistant — personalised dashboard
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Lesson Plans
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Tests Created
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Weeks Planned
Generate a lesson plan for Chapter 4 — Cell Division. Year 10, 60 minutes.
✅ Lesson Plan Generated — Biology · Cell Division (Mitosis) ⏱ Year 10 · 60 min · From your Cambridge IGCSE textbook 📌 Starter: Misconception card sort (10 min) 📖 Main: Mitosis stages diagram + annotation (ref. p.87) ✏️ Formative: Mini-whiteboard checks (10 min) 🎯 Plenary: Exit ticket — 3 stages of mitosis
Also create a 20-mark test on this chapter.
📝 Test Generated — Cell Division · 20 marks · Exam difficulty ✅ 5 MCQ (5 marks) + 3 short answer (9 marks) + 1 extended (6 marks) 📥 PDF with mark scheme ready to download
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Lesson Planner

Lesson Planner

Generate complete, structured lesson plans from your uploaded textbooks — personalised to your teaching style, year group, and learning objectives.

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Personalised Assignments & Tests
CourseSmith — Personalised Assignments and Tests
Analytics
CourseSmith — Student Analytics
Syllabus Manager

Upload Your Textbooks — CourseSmith Reads Every Chapter

Generic AI lesson planners write from the internet. CourseSmith writes from your textbooks. Upload your course materials through the Syllabus Manager and CourseSmith builds a knowledge model of your exact curriculum — the chapters, the concepts, the sequence. Everything it generates from this point is grounded in your actual teaching materials.

CourseSmith · Syllabus ManagerLive
Upload: Cambridge IGCSE Biology (4th Edition) — 487 pages
📚 Processing textbook... ✅ 18 chapters indexed ✅ 487 pages vectorised ✅ Key concepts extracted by chapter Chapters ready: 1. Cell Structure · 2. Transport · 3. Enzymes · 4. Cell Division... Curriculum model built. Ready to generate lesson plans.
18 Chapters Indexed Content Model Built Ready to Plan
AI Lesson Planner

AI Lesson Planner — From Chapter to Full Lesson Plan in 2 Minutes

Select a topic from your uploaded syllabus. Tell CourseSmith the year group, session length, and learning objectives. Get a complete lesson plan: starter, main teaching content sourced from your textbook, formative assessment moments, differentiation, and plenary. Plans are editable and downloadable. No generic templates. Your books, your students.

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Lesson plan: Chapter 4 Cell Division · Year 10 · 60 min · Learning objective: understand stages of mitosis
✅ Lesson Plan — Cell Division (Mitosis) · Year 10 · 60 min 🟠 Starter (10 min): Misconception card sort — students rank mitosis statements T/F 📖 Main (35 min): Mitosis stages diagram (ref. p.87 your textbook) + annotation task ✏️ Formative (10 min): Mini-whiteboards — name each stage shown 🎯 Plenary (5 min): Exit ticket — describe mitosis in 3 sentences 📥 Edit and download as PDF
Textbook-Grounded Differentiation Included PDF Download
Test Generator

AI Test Generator — Custom Assessments From Your Chapters, Not Generic Question Banks

Select the chapters, question types, difficulty, and total marks. CourseSmith generates a complete test or assignment drawn from your uploaded textbook — not a generic question bank. Every question is relevant to what you've actually taught. Edit any question. Export as PDF or editable format. Include the answer key.

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Generate: Chapters 5–6 · 30 marks · 40 min · MCQ + short answer + extended · exam difficulty · include mark scheme
📝 Test Generated — Chapters 5–6 · 30 marks · 40 min Section A (10 marks): 5 × MCQ drawn from Ch.5–6 content Section B (10 marks): 3 × Short answer questions (3+3+4 marks) Section C (10 marks): 1 × Extended response — causes and consequences ✅ Full mark scheme included 📥 PDF ready · Editable version available
Chapter-Specific Mark Scheme Included Editable + PDF
Student Analytics

Student Analytics — Know Who's Struggling Before the End-of-Term Report

CourseSmith tracks student performance across every assessment and activity. The analytics dashboard shows you individual student progress, class-wide topic scores, and which concepts need re-teaching. Identify struggling students weeks before results — not weeks after.

CourseSmith · Analytics DashboardLive
Show me analytics after Test 2 — Year 10 Biology class.
📊 Class Analytics — Year 10 Biology · After Test 2 Class average: 64% (↓8% from Test 1) 🔴 Struggling (below 50%): • Jamie T. — 42% · weak on Ch.4 mitosis • Sarah K. — 46% · weak on Ch.3 enzymes ⚠️ Topics requiring re-teaching: • Cell Division (avg 51%) — 14/28 below threshold • Enzyme Activity (avg 58%) 📌 Recommended: 20-min re-teach on mitosis before Test 3
28 Students Tracked 2 Tests Analysed Re-teach Plan Ready

Experience CourseSmith — Pick a Real Teaching Scenario

See how CourseSmith responds to a real teacher's request. Select a scenario below.

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Generate a lesson plan: Chapter 4 Cell Division · Year 10 · 60 min · learning objective: understand stages of mitosis
CourseSmith
✅ Lesson Plan — Cell Division (Mitosis) · Year 10 · 60 min Source: Cambridge IGCSE Biology, Ch.4 (your uploaded textbook) 🟠 Starter (10 min): Misconception card sort — students rank mitosis statements as True/False 📖 Main Teaching (35 min): Mitosis stages diagram + annotation task (ref. p.87 of your textbook) Guided notes on PMAT stages with checkpoint questions ✏️ Formative check (10 min): Mini-whiteboards: name each stage shown in diagram 🎯 Plenary (5 min): Exit ticket — describe mitosis in 3 sentences
Teacher
Add a differentiation section for lower-ability students.
CourseSmith
✅ Differentiation added: 🟢 Lower ability: • Pre-labelled diagram with word bank for annotation • Sentence starters for exit ticket • Partner work during diagram activity 🔵 Higher ability extension: • Compare mitosis vs. meiosis — what's different and why? • Research: what happens when mitosis goes wrong? 📥 Updated lesson plan ready to download.

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Secondary school biology teacher selects Chapter 4 (Cell Division) from their uploaded textbook. Sets: Year 10 · 60-minute lesson · learning objective: understand mitosis stages. CourseSmith generates a complete structured lesson plan referenced from the uploaded textbook.

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CourseSmith — Built for Every Type of Educator

School Teachers

Secondary · High School · Primary

You teach multiple classes, cover a packed syllabus, mark constantly, and plan in evenings and weekends. CourseSmith handles the planning. Upload your scheme of work and textbooks once — generate lesson plans, tests, and weekly schedules in minutes, not hours.

Lesson planningTerm schedulesCustom testsDifferentiationStudent analytics

University Lecturers

HE · FE · Module Leaders · Graduate Teaching

You have research commitments alongside teaching. CourseSmith makes lecture preparation faster — upload your module textbooks and reading lists, generate structured session plans and formative assessments grounded in your actual academic content, and track cohort performance across assessments.

Lecture planningModule schedulesFormative assessmentCohort analyticsAssignment creation

Tutors & Corporate Trainers

Private Tutors · Training Centres · L&D Teams

You need personalised materials for each student or learner group. CourseSmith generates targeted lesson plans and assessments from the specific materials relevant to each client — whether that's GCSE maths revision, professional certification content, or bespoke corporate training modules.

GCSE revisionProfessional certsCorporate L&D1-to-1 planningProgress tracking
How It Works

From Textbook Upload to Complete Lesson Plan in 4 Steps

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Set Up Your Persona

Tell CourseSmith how you teach — your style, preferences, and approach. It uses this to personalise everything it generates for you.

5 minutes once
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Upload Your Textbooks

Upload your course textbooks and syllabus through the Syllabus Manager. CourseSmith reads and indexes every chapter in under 2 minutes.

Under 2 minutes
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★ KEY STEP

Generate Content

Select what you need: lesson plan, weekly schedule, test, assignment. CourseSmith generates it from your uploaded materials, personalised to your teaching style.

1–3 minutes per item
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Review & Track

Edit and download lesson plans, tests, and schedules. Track student performance in the analytics dashboard across every assessment.

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What Educators Say About CourseSmith

Saved 6 Hours Per Week

CourseSmith has genuinely transformed how I plan. I used to spend Sunday evenings building lesson plans from scratch. Now I upload my chapter, set my year group and objectives, and have a complete plan in under 3 minutes — grounded in my actual textbook, not some generic template. It's given me my weekends back.

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Kalpana Mishara
Secondary School Teacher, Biology
14-Week Schedule in 10 Minutes

The term schedule feature alone is worth it. I teach 4 groups across GCSE and A-Level. Building 4 separate term planners used to take me a full Saturday. CourseSmith mapped all four across 14 weeks — with revision blocks before assessments built in — in about 10 minutes. The test generator is equally impressive.

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Raj Patel
Maths Teacher, GCSE and A-Level
Student Gaps Found Before Mock Exams

The analytics caught something I would have missed. Four students in my Year 10 group were consistently weak on one chapter — not failing overall, so it wasn't obvious. CourseSmith surfaced it after their second test. I ran a targeted re-teach session the following week. Their mock results were significantly better as a result.

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Nidhi Barad
Head of Department, History

Frequently Asked Questions About CourseSmith

Everything teachers need to know about AI lesson planning with CourseSmith.

CourseSmith is an AI-powered teaching assistant built for educators — from school teachers to university lecturers to private tutors. It learns two things about you: who you are as a teacher (through a Persona module that captures your teaching style, preferred approach, and instructional preferences) and what you teach (through a Syllabus Manager that uploads and processes your actual textbooks and course materials). From this foundation, CourseSmith generates lesson plans, weekly schedules, custom tests, assignments, and analytics — all grounded in your specific curriculum, not generic AI content. Everything CourseSmith creates is tailored to how you teach and what you teach.
CourseSmith uses your actual uploaded textbooks and curriculum materials — not generic internet content. This is the core distinction between CourseSmith and generic AI tools like ChatGPT for lesson planning. When you upload your textbooks through the Syllabus Manager, CourseSmith processes and vectorises the content, meaning every lesson plan, test question, and assignment it generates is directly drawn from your specific course materials. A biology teacher using a particular Cambridge IGCSE textbook gets lesson plans grounded in that specific textbook — not a generic biology overview.
CourseSmith's AI lesson planner generates structured lesson plans from your uploaded syllabus and textbooks. You select the topic, year group or level, session length, and learning objectives. CourseSmith produces a full lesson plan including: learning outcomes, starter activity, main teaching content (referenced from your textbook), formative assessment moments, differentiation suggestions for different ability levels, and a plenary or closing activity. Lesson plans are editable and downloadable. The more CourseSmith learns about your teaching persona, the more closely the plans reflect your individual style — not a generic template.
CourseSmith generates weekly teaching schedules by combining your syllabus coverage requirements with your teaching timetable inputs. You specify: the subjects and year groups you teach, the number of lessons per week per group, the total curriculum weeks available, and any assessments or deadlines to plan around. CourseSmith maps your syllabus content across the available teaching time, distributing topics logically and building in revision and assessment weeks. The resulting schedule ensures complete curriculum coverage without the hours of manual planning typically required at the start of each term.
Teachers have complete control over test and assignment creation in CourseSmith. You specify: which chapters or topics to draw from, the number and types of questions (multiple choice, short answer, extended response, structured questions), the difficulty level, the total marks available, and any specific learning objectives to assess. CourseSmith generates a first draft of the assessment from your uploaded textbook content. Every question is editable — you can modify, remove, or reorder questions before saving or downloading. You can also add your own questions alongside AI-generated ones. The AI drafts; you approve.
CourseSmith's analytics dashboard shows student performance data across assessments and practice activities. For each assessment completed through the platform, it tracks: individual student scores by topic and question type, class-wide performance averages, topics where students consistently underperform, progress over multiple assessments, and engagement patterns. The dashboard surfaces which students may need additional support and which topics require re-teaching before moving forward. Analytics are presented visually and can be exported for reporting or parent communication purposes.
CourseSmith supports any educator who works from textbooks or structured curriculum materials. This includes: secondary and high school teachers across all subjects, university and further education lecturers, tutoring centre educators and private tutors, corporate trainers delivering structured programmes, and SEND educators who need differentiated materials. The platform is subject-agnostic — CourseSmith generates lesson plans and assessments for any subject once the relevant textbooks or materials are uploaded. STEM subjects, humanities, languages, and professional training content are all supported.
CourseSmith requires 200 credits per month through the SuperMIA Agent Marketplace. New SuperMIA accounts receive free starter credits, allowing you to upload your first textbook and generate your first lesson plan immediately with no payment required. For schools and institutions deploying CourseSmith across multiple teachers, contact SuperMIA for volume pricing and administration features including shared syllabus libraries, departmental dashboards, and institution-level analytics.
Stop planning in evenings. Start teaching better.

Your Curriculum Is Already in Those Textbooks. CourseSmith Just Reads Them For You.

Join teachers, lecturers, and tutors using CourseSmith to plan every lesson, schedule every term, and assess every student — from their actual uploaded curriculum, not generic AI.

Free to start. 200 credits/month. No credit card needed. 24/7 available.

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